The heart stops beating on “One Life to Live” today. Take our trivia quiz!

Forget the promise of a storm and bitter cold weather, and who cares about Friday the 13th? Today is a sad day for Llanview-ers (Did I just make that up?) worldwide. At 2 p.m. today EST, “One Life to Live” airs its final episode, just shy of 44 years, the victim of fluctuating viewer tastes, budget concerns, weak ratings, and, apparently an executive in charge of daytime programming who wants his lasting legacy to be the cancelling of two iconic television shows – “One Life to Live” and “All My Children” – for “The Chew” and “The Revolution.” Because I think we all can all agree: There just aren’t enough talk/lifestyle/food/reality shows on daytime TV.

Katie Couric’s on the way to ABC this year with her own afternoon show so the future looks grim for the longest-running daytime serial currently on, “General Hospital,” but that ABC exec has moved on so that show’s blood won’t be on his hands.

Is it Viki? Or one of her alternate personalities?

Are you in mourning? Did you take the day off? Did you grow up watching the show at the feet of your mother, witnessing scandalous plots, sexual liaisons and nefarious deeds far beyond your maturity level? Or will your Friday night be devoted to the residents of Llanview, Pa., as you watch your DVRed “story,” box of tissues at the ready, and say goodbye to daytime matriarch-to-end-all-matriarchs, Victoria Lord Something Something Something, etc.? (A central character of the show since its beginning in 1968, the part has been played since 1971 by six-time Emmy winner Erika Slezak, daughter of famed movie character actor Walter Slezak.)

But before you see the last of the Lords, Buchanans, McBains, Cramers, Mannings, Vegas, Patels, Balsoms and their friends, take a trip down memory lane (Remember the Woleks? Or Eterna? How about Niki Smith?) and see how much you recall about 43 plus years of often socially conscious soap opera. Click here to take our trivia quiz.

Take heart OLTL fans, four of your favorite characters will be coming to “General Hospital” for a limited time to continue a plot on the Port Charles canvas. Working-their-way-back-to-each-other ex’s Blair and Todd, their pop singing daughter Starr and brooding detective John will soon be mixing it up with mob kingpin Sonny, scheming Carly and the antihero’s antihero, Luke Spencer.

And oh so coincidentally, if you want to celebrate OLTL’s past performers head to Curtain Call Theatre in Latham tonight for opening night of “Next Fall,” Geoffrey Nauffts play about the relationship between a devoutly religious man and his atheist boyfriend. It’s directed by the theater’s resident director, Steve Fletcher, who played wealthy bad boy Brad Vernon on OLTL from 1978-1986.